Carpet-fastener



(No Model.)

N. M.v HARRISON.

CARPET PASTENER ,401. PatentedMar. 14, 1893.

UNrTED STATES PATENT OFFICEe NANCY MALINDA HARRISON, OF PERRY, IOWA.

CARPET-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 493,401, dated March14, 1893.

Application filed-.Tune 23, 1892. Serial No. 437,773. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NANCY MALINDA HAE- RISON, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Perry, in the county of Dallas and State of Iowa,have invented a new and useful Rug or Carpet Pin, of which Ythefollowing is a specication.

This invention relates to rug or carpet pins also adapted for otheruses, and consists of the construction and arrangement of the partsthereof as will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of this invention is to provide a device of the character setforth adapted for securing rugs and carpets in place and which may bealso employed for fastening tags or other papers the parts thereof beingsimple and effective in their construction and operation, strong anddurable and easily and readily manufactured and sold at a small expense.

In the drawings;-Figure lis a perspective View of the improved deviceshowing the manner of securing a rug thereby. Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview of the device detached and on an enlarged scale.

Similar numerals 0f reference are employed to indicate correspondingparts in both the views.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral 1 designates the shank orsupporting bar of the pin having an eye 2, formed intermediate of thelength thereof and a pointed angularly positioned engaging end 3.Opposite to the said engaging end the shank l, is formed with coils 4,and from thence continues a long curved securing arm 5, having a pointedend 6, and which is adapted to engage the end 3, of the said shank. Thearm 5 is lengthened as shown and set forth, for the purpose of making iteasily applied and to adapt the same to be passed through a considerablethickness of material. It will be understood of the room.

any description may be held by the improved device and be supported bymeans of the eye 2, on the shank or bar l.

lVhen the device is employed for securing rugs as shown the partsthereof are so arranged that they will not become crushed or bent out ofshape if stepped upon or if a weight be brought to bear thereon, and asan additional feature of assistance in keeping the device in position,the pointed end 3, is brought prominently into play and is pressedinward into the rug or carpet and thereby holds the said end down andsustains the arm 5, in engagement therewith against accidentaldisplacement.

The device may be constructed of suitable wire of sufficient stiffnessor resilient rigidity to adapt the same for the several uses set forthand it will be observed that only one piece of Wire is necessary and isused in the construction thereof.

Many advantages will appear from timeto time to those employing thedevice other than those hereinbefore enumerated.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as newv is- As animproved article of manufacture, a pin of the character described,consisting of a straight shank or supporting bar having an angularlybent free end to form a keeper with a terminating sharpened point toengage the material to which the pin is applied, and an arm of curvedformation bent backward over said shank or bar and adapted to engage thesaid keeper, the said arm being longer than the said shank or bar andhaving the end thereof pointed to engage the material to which the pinis applied, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

NANCY MALINDA HARRISON.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. Oris, E. M. THoMAs.

